[pp.int.general] Pirate Party of the United States is starting to collect signatures

[Glenn Kerbein]

The Secretary of State for the state of Iowa doesn't have anything
specific. The only thing I could pull up was this:
http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/elections/formingpoliticalparty.pdf
Which states that to be a political party, you have to have voted in the
last election for president or governor.

Will Pomes wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Norton <
> andrew.norton at pirate-party.us> wrote:
> 
>> Anton Tamminen wrote:
>>
>>> Glenn Kerbein wrote:
>>>
>>>> California will be a tough cookie to crack for many reasons. Namely, the
>>>> Secretary of State for California states that a party must collect at
>>>> least 5,000 votes, being that it is such a large state.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> To engage myself in the age-old Finnish tradition of competing in degrees
>>> of misery, I shall mention that we in Finland also need to collect 5000
>>> signatures. Californias population is approx 36.5 million. Finland's is 5.3,
>>> with people scattered around an area more than twice the size of California
>>> :)
>>>
>> nope, he said VOTES.
>>
>> to start the state party, the numbers are based on the number of votes cast
>> in the last governors election.
>> 1% of that amount, if people give a statement of support ("I support this
>> party, and will possibly vote for them" sort of thing) OR
>> 10% of the total, if people sign a petition ("I think it would be a good
>> idea to have this party on the ballot" sort of thing)
>>
>> 8.8Million voted at the last one I checked (but that was before the last
>> set of elections, so there might be a new number) which means 88,000
>> statements, or 880,000 signatures. neither of which are easy.
>>
>> Of course, if I'm wrong, expect to see an email from Glenn correcting me.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
> Iowa also requires 5500 votes, unless I misunderstand the law as it is
> written.
> (I did the research for the wiki page, copied directly from a document by
> the state.)
> 
> 
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Glenn Kerbein
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